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I am trying to create a record with association. Within the create method, I would also like to pre-populate dependent (has_many) records from a template in the database. The child records are <u>mysteriously rolled back </u> if I insert them in a loop. If I try to insert a single child record, it works.I have read the books and tried to google my way out of this but am at a dead

Hello, I''m not sure if I''m missing something blindingly obvious here. All the relationships that Rails comes with assume 0..n, yes? It''s not a strict 1 to 1 or 1 to n because it''s optional. My question is this - What is the best way to implement a required relationship? For example, if I require that a comment is made by a user (a user has many

Hi to everyone, I have the following models: class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base has_attachment :content_type => [:image, ''application/pdf''], :max_size => 3.megabytes, :path_prefix => ''../private/attachments'', :storage => :file_system, :processor => :rmagick,

Having a devil of a time finding records in a self-referencing has_many table relationship. Everything is working find looking at the has_many and the belongs_to relationship. But, when I try to find all "orphans", records that are neither a parent nor a child, I can not find a query that work in ActiveRecord. This query works in MySQL: SELECT * FROM templates LEFT JOIN templates

I am trying to create a messaging system for my users but I''m having a hard time designing my db. This is what i have in mind, but I am not sure if its the best approach. user has_one inbox user has_one outbox inbox has_many messages outbox has_many messages inbox table user_id outbox table user_id messages table box_id (refers to either inbox or outbox - how?) from_id to_id

Please excuse a newbie question, but I couldn''t find anything by searching the archives. What I want to know is how to have multiple references to the same class/table within a class. For example, let''s say I have a table called People: create table people ( id serial8 primary key ,name); which just holds a list of the people in the database. Then I have another

DB field names: If I have a table that references 2 or more separate users from my users table, is there a recommended naming convention for this situation? In my case, I have 3 users associated with a record in my projects table: requester_user_id created_by updated_by I could name one of them "user_id", and then projects.user would work I guess, but wouldn''t work

I''m in progress of making a little folder system with Ruby on Rails. I''ve got a "folders" table. Each "folder" has got an id and a folder_id. The folder_id is supposed to represent the folders'' parent folder. How can I tell Rails? I would like Rails to automaticly delete all subfolders of a folder when I delete the folder it self. Any ideas? --

Hi all, I''m confused about how I''m supposed to specify a belongs_to relationship when the table includes multiple columns that reference the same parent table. In my case I have a "schedules" table with "opened_by" and "closed_by" columns, that both reference the "users" table. In theory, they can be two different user ids. table

I''m trying to set deploy an app on apache2 with the fcgid module, but can''t seem to get anywhere. Things work fine with cgi, but when i switch to fcgi, i''m stuck with a ''503: Service Temporarily Unavailable''. There''s no error being logged anywhere, afaik. Trying to run dispatch.fcgi from the shell doesn''t work either. It bombs out,

I have this in a model: has_one :next, :class_name=>''WorkPart'', :foreign_key=>''next_id'' And it causes this error: compile error /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.1/lib/active_record/deprecated_associations.rb:83: void value expression

Hi Everyone, I hope I get some feedback on my question. Here it goes. I have a situation here, I have a company table and then using Single Table inheritance it is of 3 types: class Company < ActiveRecord::Base end class Vendor < Company end class Customer < Company end class Agent < Company end Now I have a active record Association class QuoteSheet < ActiveRecord::Base

I would like to have a customer that has references to two addresses, a billing address and a shipping address. In a non-rails environment I would have two keys in the customers table, billing_address_id and shipping_address_id to reference the addresses. It appears that ActiveRecord expects the parent id to reside in the child table, regardless of whether the relationship is one-to-one or

I had a similar problem yesterday. I would go to the root of my site and I would get a Too Many Redirects message. It seems like there was an infinite loop. After struggling for over an hour yesterday late at night, it seemed like I fixed it. But now, when I want to create a New User, it''s redirecting me to the Sign In screen. Seems like I didn''t fix the problem completely. I

Every once in a while, I pipe up and whine that "belongs_to" should really be ''refers_to" [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2130]. It''s time again. I''ve got a bunch of stuff going onto eBay, so, like any good engineer, I don''t just post it manually: I design a Rails-based inventory database that creates a semantically-correct XHTML/CSS auction

Hi I have been struggling to get a foreign key in a list map to a readable value in a lookup table I have a list of projects and each project has a project_manager. Project.rb class Project < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :project_manager, :class_name => "Users", :foreign_key => "manager_id" end The association above sais that a project_manager is in

Suppose I have one table: states id statename And I have two other tables that contains states: houses id color state_id places id place_name state_id How would my model relationships look like? class State < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to house belongs_to place end class House < ActiveRecord::Base has_one state end class Place <

I have a table called players and its model Player, and I have a table called games and its model Game. In the games table I have: player1_id int(11) player2_id int(11) I want the tables to be associated so that I can access the player objects using table.player1 and table.player2 rather than having to lookup the objects based on the ids. I am not sure how to go about this but I suspect I

I have a model where I have a tree of nodes in one table (acts_as_tree) where I also use a type column to get inheritance. In this table I also have a data_id column that refers to another row in another table (the subclass knows what table). I also have another class that have this line class Page < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :node, :foreign_key =>

Hi! I got a class named EinsatzFilter which I serialized to session. Before saving to session it works afterwards I keep getting the message: "undefined method `to_s'' for #<Person:0x38c6ab8>". "Person" is a from ActiveRecord::Base inherited class. Code: class EinsatzFilter include ApplicationHelper attr_reader :personen, :monat, :projekte, :kunde